SEARCH RESULTS

Viene ripreso il testo di una conferenza tenuta al MART di Rovereto il 17 dicembre 2011, in occasione di una mostra dedicata dal museo all’opera di Severini. Il tema di un quadro esposto che ebbe particolari vicissitudini (completato una prima volta nel 1911 e poi andato disperso e rifatto dall’autore nel 1959-1960) e intitolato La danza del pan pan al Monico viene assunto come filo conduttore della visita alla mostra e come espressione di uno stato emotivo interiore dell’artista che accompagna tutta la sua opera, o meglio la sua vita. Audacemente si rileva che persino nella fotografia dall’alto della via che la città natia di Cortona ha dedicato all’artista dopo la sua morte è possibile rintracciare il movimento grafico e coloristico del pan pan di Severini.

Il lavoro di un gruppo di terapia gruppoanalitica in un’istituzione cattolica ha permesso di riflettere, oltre che sulla distinzione epistemologica tra psicologia e religione, sulla struttura della "relazione religiosa" e le sue modalità di implicazione terapeutica. Tra queste, la funzione dell’omogeneità, potenziata dai contenuti tipici della religiosità cattolica: da un lato, evolutivamente, tali contenuti hanno predisposto un terreno fertile per i fattori terapeutici e i valori costitutivi della terapia gruppoanalitica (per es. centralità della relazione); dall’altra ne hanno accentuato i rischi antievolutivi (per es. dipendenza dal terapeuta). Accanto alla funzione del conduttore nel rendere feconda la dialettica tra queste due polarità, sono state analizzate le caratteristiche universali del bisogno pre-religioso di credere, che è alla base della condivisione e della solidarietà in tutte le loro articolazioni.

Nel presente lavoro l’autrice ripercorre l’esperienza di conduzione di un piccolo gruppo "a termine" in un servizio di territorio. Un incontro ricco di sfumature, che lascia intravedere l’intreccio che si crea tra esperienza e teoria per tessere la trama di emozioni, affetti, pensieri, immagini e movimenti che consentono alla cura di prendere forma. Nell’articolo si descrive l’esperienza passando per i vissuti e le emozioni che hanno attraversato il gruppo ovvero come direbbe Foulkes «il gruppo nella sua interezza ivi incluso il suo conduttore». Obiettivo principale è stato il tentativo di consegnare a ciascun partecipante qualcosa di nuovo o di ri-scoperto che potesse attivare un desiderio, un desiderio di "partenza". La psicoterapia tante volte ha rievocato l’idea del viaggio e questa breve esperienza ha inizio con l’intenzione di fare "quattro passi" attraverso mappe psico-emotive. La particolarità dell’approccio descritto in questo lavoro è la valorizzazione del vissuto gruppale condiviso. La fenomenologia ha trovato applicazione terapeutica nella metodologia di gruppo. L’esperienza vissuta si combina con altre esperienze vissute.

L’articolo riporta l’esperienza di un gruppo di psicoterapia ad orientamento gruppoanalitico, composto da pazienti con lunga storia di grave patologia mentale, creato all’interno del CSM Perugia-Bellocchio di Perugia. L’obiettivo del gruppo è di restituire voce a quei pazienti psicotici, che hanno sempre avuto poche possibilità di farsi ascoltare. Ri-dare voce significa anche ri-dare dignità a chi è stato completamente spersonalizzato dalla vita istituzionale. L’articolo descrive il setting del gruppo ed esplicita come alcune "regole" siano state adattate al fine di rendere lo spazio gruppale il più possibile fruibile. Viene anche riportato come nel corso del tempo, è apparsa indispensabile l’introduzione progressiva di nuove variabili, per attivare cambiamenti evolutivi capaci di incidere sulle dinamiche del gruppo. La scelta di un setting "contenitivo" ma caratterizzato anche da elementi di mobilità è nata dalla necessità di introdurre nuovi stimoli e permettere ai membri del gruppo di affrontare tematiche altrimenti molto lontane dalla loro coscienza, ma comunque presenti. L’esperienza svolta suggerisce che i pazienti, anche quelli più "regrediti", trovano nel gruppo gruppoanalitico una condizione esistenziale che, attraverso esperienze condivise, induce nuovi pensieri e connessioni permettendo di dare continuità narrativa ad elementi frammentati di esistenze discontinue.

Nel presente lavoro si ripercorre l’esperienza di co-conduzione di un gruppo di psicoterapia gruppoanalitica per adolescenti in un Servizio territoriale. La finalità di questa esperienza è stata quella di promuovere processi di cambiamento e di benessere psicologico in adolescenti a rischio di strutturare gravi disturbi della personalità. Nell’articolo si evidenzia la complessità di tale intervento e gli aspetti di criticità, ponendo attenzione alle dinamiche istituzionali dei Servizi coinvolti (Centro di Salute Mentale, Servizi sociali, Tribunali dei Minori e Scuole). Analizza inoltre i drop out del gruppo e riflette su come questi abbandoni non abbiano a che fare soltanto con la scarsa motivazione degli adolescenti al lavoro psicoterapico, ma anche con aspetti tecnici legati alla conduzione del gruppo e alle problematiche fra le varie istituzioni coinvolte.

In ambito psicoanalitico, il dibattito recente sul trauma si è articolato attorno a due argomenti controversi: uno fa riferimento al concetto prettamente clinico di disturbo post-traumatico da stress, che si concentra sulla situazione individuale di una persona traumatizzata, mentre una concezione più politica enfatizza che il trauma è il risultato di un disastro compiuto dall’uomo. L’articolo segue questa seconda linea argomentativa, ripercorrendo gli approcci teorici che collegano il trauma con il contesto politico e sociale e sottolineando l’impatto sociale dei traumi di massa. Queste implicazioni teoriche vengono utilizzate per illustrare la situazione traumatica che ha fatto seguito alla guerra in Guatemala per mostrare come, quando i traumi di massa vengono denegati, prendano forma in violenze sociali croniche e nell’incapacità di risolvere i conflitti in modi non-violenti. Infine, utilizza l’analisi di un seminario di formazione in Guatemala per dimostrare come la mancanza di riconoscimento di un trauma di massa invade e contamina tutte le relazioni di lavoro all’interno di una istituzione sociale.

CRUI, the Conference of Italian University Rectors, is the national association of state and non-state universities that acts as representative body for the university system towards national and local and authorities and stakeholders. In the framework of its activities, CRUI has engaged in a first attempt to identify the practices in use at Italian universities for the internal assessment of their research activities, considering these internal exercises as separate from the national assessment exercises carried out by national agencies. A questionnaire on this topic was submitted to 81 universities in November 2012.The results have provided a first overview of the institutional behaviors existing at university level as far as the internal research assessment practices are concerned. A significant number of universities (more than 70% of respondents) declared that they have set up regular internal assessment exercises, in order to get a clearer picture of their strong and weak points in research performance; in many cases, they identified also the distribution of resources internally as one of the main objectives. Universities provided information on how they manage the process and which tools they use to reach their goals, as well as the type of indicators they use. With reference to the mentioned issues, 37 universities have specific methodological guidelines for the assessment procedure. Nearly the same number of universities (36) declared that they use citation databases (respectively Web of Science, Scopus and other). Among the most used indicators universities have highlighted the number of scientific outputs, the quality of journals where researchers publish and the capacity to attract external resources (i.e. projects, contracts, etc.). A second step will be to investigate further the methodological documents that provide guidance for the internal assessment in each university, as well as to analyze the structure of the bodies in charge of its management, with the objective of identifying the degree of formalization and stability of the internal process and its main characteristics.

Although bibliometrics and research evaluation seem to be almost identical, bibliometrics is an autonomous discipline that can have various forms when used as an instrument of quantitative research evaluation. The quantitative evaluation of publication and citation data is now performed in almost all nations around the globe. This is done for various purposes and by various stakeholders. Bibliometrics is used in research performance evaluation, especially in university and government labs, and is also used by policymakers, research directors and administrators, information specialists and librarians, and researchers themselves.

The aim of this paper is to investigate evaluation in Italy both at national and at institutional level, their differences, relationship and possibility of integration. Italy is a latecomer in the field of research evaluation, but great efforts have been made in recent years to bridge the gap by following best practices at an international level. While at a national level the National Agency of Evaluation (ANVUR) has played an important role in stimulating discussions, considerations (and controversies) in the attempt to establish a role model and a methodology for qualitative evaluation, there is not a common model for institutional evaluation and the possibility to gain reliable benchmarking information depends, at this moment, on collaboration with other institutions in the definition of a common frame and in the sharing of data, expertise and tools.

All experts agree on that a good scientific level is a requisite to maintain a sustainable and healthy economic system in a country. It has been shown by many experts that the countries lacking of a good research system have a weak and unstable economic base. On the contrary, the instauration of quality research systems has been key factors to induce economic development. On the other hand, governments need to know the results of the funds invested in research and the efficiency of the scientific policies. All these facts prompt many politicians to afford the objective of improving the scientific research in their countries or regions, and often the first thing they request is an evaluation of the research system in order to have a complete overview, determine its efficacy and its accountability and take the best decisions (Kind, 2004). At a smaller scale, deans and directors of universities and research institutions are interested in evaluate their respective research programs and performance to be able to take decisions based on the evidences. In general, the administrators of these institutions have to deal with the following questions: what resources should I apply in scientific research, in which areas, fields or problems? And, how can I measure the efficacy and the outputs of the investment? The research evaluation is a controversial issue, there is not a universally accepted standard procedure able to fit all the needs, and nowadays is getting even more difficult as the methods to publish the results are rapidly evolving towards digital formats and internet dissemination (Abramo e D’Angelo, 2011, Rodriguez-Navarro, 2012). However, there are some common points in which one can find general consensus and some evaluation models that have shown to be efficient in many different types of scenery. In this short paper we would like to show some procedures that we consider could be used for scientific production evaluation. We also indicate some common misconceptions that should be avoided. We do not pretend to write an evaluation guideline, but rather our particular opinion from our experience, particularly in the Spanish context.

This paper presents a view of research evaluation from the perspective of a large, multidisciplinary public university in the United States. Faced with increasing demands for accountability to the public, such universities currently lack adequate approaches to research evaluation. In fact, many of the approaches to research evaluation tend to rely on disciplinary standards for what counts as excellent research. Although these standards protect the autonomy of disciplines, departments, and faculty members, they do not speak to a notion of accountability that goes beyond accountability to academic peers. Public universities in the US should follow the example of the US National Science Foundation and find a way to incorporate concerns for broader societal impacts into their approaches to research evaluation.

The problems emerging in the evaluation of scientific research are analyzed focusing on the following main issues: purposes of the evaluation, individual and collective subjects involved, methodologies and objects of the evaluation. Special emphasis is given to the uses and limitations of bibliometry, whose application to individual production should be regarded only as complementary to peer review. The notion and the possible definition of a scientific product are critically discussed.

The University as an institution is a central actor of the knowledge economies. It has now become, in most developed societies, an actor entitled with a large autonomy within the national higher education and research system, in the context of national policies and public management rules. In this sense, the University is a strategic actor, i.e. in a position to develop a vision of its future, based on its missions and taking into account its strengths and weaknesses as well as the threats and opportunities of its environment. From there establishing short and medium terms operational objectives, making organisational choices and allocation of resources - in short, developing a strategy. It is the role of the governance1 of a University to elaborate such a strategy and to implement it through a variety of managerial processes and instruments. Among them the evaluation function is of major importance, since it is fundamentally the feed-back loop linking the governance to the real world. But if evaluation is a key-function for strategic actors, it makes it an issue for all the strategic actors of the Higher Education and Research (HER) system, beyond the universities - in particular the ministry in charge of Higher Education and Research (MHER) and the Departments in a University2. Those three levels - National, University, Departmental - are admittedly highly interconnected and having asymmetrical (hierarchical) relationships, yet their strategic capability must be recognised - hence their legitimate involvement in - and use of - evaluation activities. The objective of this paper is - focussing on the University as an evaluation actor - to identify and discuss the question of its relationships, in terms of evaluation activities, with University Departments on one side and with the MHER on the other - which are both evaluation actors as well. Our standpoint is to refer to evaluation methodologies and our examples will mostly be based on the evaluation activities of the UNIMIL, as well as those taking place in France, at various levels. We also make some references to the evaluation implications of the Bologna process. In a first paragraph, we give an overview of the relationships among the evaluation actors of the different levels; in a second and third paragraph, we focus on the relationships of a university with the departmental and national level, respectively, discussing some methodological issues, concluding then on the stakes which a university faces as an evaluation actor.

Illegal markets of waste, counterfeit goods and animals have now reached a global dimension, representing one of the most critical - and at the same time one of the less known - aspects of trade globalization. Legal and illegal routes, which sometimes are two sides of the same coin, mix and overlap, growing at the speed of light: this is one of the most typical aspect of the so called "globalization in black". The border between the legal and the illegal economy is smaller and smaller. Licit and illicit activities seem to merge in the same "grey zone" because of the widespread corruption in the public administration. In the last two years the Italian law enforcement have concluded at least 163 international investigations involving Italy for illegal trafficking of waste, counterfeit goods and animals. Trades that have moved mainly on the sea, especially for heavy loads and long distances. It is here according to the European Commission that moves 81% of world trade

The paper is focused on the role of employee participation within the innovation strategies at company level and its impact on job quality and job satisfaction. After a rapid overview on the meaning of employee participation and its different forms, the paper presents the results of two empirical research projects conducted in Emilia-Romagna region. The first project investigates the relationships among innovation, work organisation and industrial relations through casestudy methodology. On the other side, the second project consists of a large scale survey based on a questionnaire collecting workers’ perception on their working conditions (about 4,500 questionnaires in the province of Bologna). Even though the two projects have different objectives and diverse theoretical basis, both results emphasize the role of employee participation